From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-24 05:24:26 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Date: 24 Sep 1994 07:20:44 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <3615is$k7l@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1994-09-24T07:20:44-05:00 List-Id: In article , Bernie Thompson wrote: > >VisualAge uses SOM as its underlying object binding method. >Taligent will provide SOM wrappers for its C++ classes. > >SOM is language-neutral. Although ADA bindings havn't yet been >produced (to my knowledge), there is nothing to prevent it. >And that would mean Ada code could call/subclass/etc all of that >C++ code. > >The judgements here are that use of anything other than C++ would be >rejected by the marketplace. > Unless you're using Ada :-) This goes back to my discussion about following the market vs. creating the market. I'm in the "If you build it, they will come" category :-) -- Proud (and vocal) member of Team Ada! (and Team OS/2) ||This is not your Ada -- Very Cool. Doesn't Suck. || father's Ada For all sorts of interesting Ada tidbits, run the command: ||________________ "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.) ObNitPick: Spelling Ada as ADA is like spelling C++ as CPLUSPLUS. :-)